Elephants and Holiday Hops

Some people are good with elephants. Rudyard Kipling tells the tale of  Toomai of the Elephants in The Jungle Book – your children will love this story (in fact they’ll probably love the whole book, which you can read here). Or for a very moving real life example check out this link – Wild Elephants gather inexplicably, mourn […]

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Progressing…

  It seems like a long time since I’ve written a WIP post but I’m glad to say I’m WIP-ing again! I’ve got two finishes – some blocks for Rosa, my bee friend in Scrappy? Sew Bee it! which is based on this quilt at Red Pepper. And two very simple cushions made from half […]

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Sew up to date

1. Biased Butterflies, 2. Dresden Cushion, 3. vintage pin cushion, 4. vintage embroidered pin cushion, 5. pin wheel pin cushion, 6. Benta’s Star, 7. Starter block for Free Form Bee, 8. Cow for Jen, 9. Feather for Lucy, 10. Sheep, 11. Little Witch, 12. Siggy Block for Lucy October has felt like a no sew […]

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End of Summer Sewing

It’s taken a couple of weeks since I pieced this (blogged here) but I finally have a Friday Finish! These ‘Really Biased Butterfly’ blocks were inspired by Amy at Badskirt and Lori at Bee in My Bonnet who have both made some fab butterflies lately. I was thinking of making them into a large floor cushion but one of […]

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The trouble with quilts…

The trouble with quilts is that you can’t eat them…likewise cushions, wall hangings, bags…   So, apart from this bee block for Carla, which I made using Amy at Badskirt’s tutorial, every time I was home during daylight hours last week I ended up harvesting and freezing vegetables, making soups and stewing apples. This week hasn’t […]

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Nine Patches

A while ago (so long I can’t remember when exactly) I signed up with Kristen at Meadowbrook for a nine patch QAL. I put her button in my side bar and started dreaming in nine patches… In my head I trialled virtually all my fabric in endless combinations but I never actually got round to sewing until […]

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Glorious Colour!

This has been a week of glorious colour! First I found out I had the won a fat quarter stack of eight Kona solids (Kona Basil, Teal, Turquoise, Peacock, Azure, Bahama blue, Lime and Jade) from the very lovely and talented Annabella at Life’s Rich Pattern. Annabella has the most wonderful taste in fabrics – so […]

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BSQ3 Finish

FRONT I’ve become a virtual blogging hermit lately. This is partly because I’ve had so little time to sew that I’ve had nothing to blog about and partly because I was starting to get worried about my Mini Quilt Wall Hanging for the Brit Quilt Swap 3 so I decided not to sew anything else until […]

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